Re: Jonathan Conder returning to OKC

Jonathan was manning the Ch4 table at a home & garden show few years ago. Husband asked what he thought about recent earthquakes, to which JC replied that meteorologists are about what goes on in the sky, while geologists are about what happens underground. He then handed me an autographed photo of himself and sent us on our way. Gosh, I regret not keeping that picture.

Re: Jonathan Conder returning to OKC

Re: Jonathan Conder returning to OKC

I have a feeling TV meteorologist will eventually be trimmed down to one or two per channel. Thanks to smartphone apps, I am lucky if I watch one or two newscasts a week. I am sure many other people are doing the same thing.

What I find funny is the little teasers the newsreaders are putting on their Twitter and Facebook pages to get people to tune in.

Re: Jonathan Conder returning to OKC

Originally Posted by MWCGuy

I have a feeling TV meteorologist will eventually be trimmed down to one or two per channel. Thanks to smartphone apps, I am lucky if I watch one or two newscasts a week. I am sure many other people are doing the same thing.

What I find funny is the little teasers the newsreaders are putting on their Twitter and Facebook pages to get people to tune in.

That doesn't even make sense. Do you expect people to work 12 hours shifts every day?

You need to have someone in the morning and also in the evening. So that's at least 2. You also need someone on the weekend, if not 2 (one morning and one night)...so that's 3 to 4. From a staffing standpoint you simply can't go to just 1 or 2 unless you plan on having forecast segments pretaped which would be suicide in this market.

The only way they cut back is if they cut out newscasts. Trend has been in the other direction.

Re: Jonathan Conder returning to OKC

I just think technology will eventually phase out the need for on air personalities. Where not to far away from computer software doing most of the leg work in forecasting. The only thing meteorologist will have to do is check the work of the software every so often for accuracy.

Re: Jonathan Conder returning to OKC

Originally Posted by MWCGuy

I just think technology will eventually phase out the need for on air personalities. Where not to far away from computer software doing most of the leg work in forecasting. The only thing meteorologist will have to do is check the work of the software every so often for accuracy.

Only if newscasts go away. If there is a live newscast, they'll keep a meteorologist there - at least in this market. Smaller or markets where weather isn't a huge ratings driver, they already share resources with other stations ore reduce the number of newscasts.

Computer software already does much of the leg work, but it still comes down to human interpretation to be somewhat accurate. I think you underestimate exactly what all goes into it.

Re: Jonathan Conder returning to OKC

So, I had a bit of a chuckle today when KOCO used Jonathan for the Breaking News report on the earthquake. Was it weather, or news? Ha!

Originally Posted by boscorama

Jonathan was manning the Ch4 table at a home & garden show few years ago. Husband asked what he thought about recent earthquakes, to which JC replied that meteorologists are about what goes on in the sky, while geologists are about what happens underground. He then handed me an autographed photo of himself and sent us on our way. Gosh, I regret not keeping that picture.